Tried to find a system this morning at Circuit City, Target, Toys R Us, and two different Best Buys. No luck. I also noticed that everybody was sold out of extra controllers too.
O Bittersweet victory! My stock is climbing :thumbsup:, but I can't find the product for myself! :thumbsdown:
I wanna play with my Wii! :evil:
O Bittersweet victory! My stock is climbing :thumbsup:, but I can't find the product for myself! :thumbsdown:
I wanna play with my Wii! :evil:
Originally posted by: simms
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
But what does the great M4H think of the Wii
Put it this way - after posting that, I went to play Wii with the wife.
I'm just returning to the keyboard now.
- M4H
Where'd you buy yours? FS and BB are all sold out.
Walmart.
- M4H
Unlike the other games, you kinda have to forget about the natural motions...theres a way to throw out certain punches, and once you figure it out, you can start putting real beatings down. To hook you want to jerk back and the the side. To uppercut, go from body to head real fast.
Another important but less than obvious thing - the vertical placement of the wiimotes means nothing - its all about tilt. Tilt forward for body blows, tilt backwards for head. The comp tries to lean later, but then you just keep hooking them in their gut. There are times when punches dont come out when i'd like, but once you get good at the game, it's great.
Wii sports is such a great game...the training modes add a lot of fun. It's definitely the greatest pack in ever...I wish there was more to it though. Not cause there isnt enough, but because its just that damn good. Golf is really growing on me too.
Oh yeah, and super monkey ball, despite it's kiddie looks, is one of the HARDEST DAMN GAMES ever made. I swear it took me 50 tries to make it through one level...and its not even halfway through the game. Seriously not the game for people who like to smash controllers when they get frustrated. A lot of the party games suck, but the single player is great, and it controls excellent - it takes a little getting used to, but I'd take it over analog stick any day.
zerocool84
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Windwaker was a great game. It got a lot of FLAK because of the graphic style but i really liked the game.
CZroe
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OK, so my replacement Wii arrived Friday, but I sorta sold it to a friend at-cost just before it broke on day 1 (expecting to get another the next day or so). Because we still couldn't find another in stores in the meantime, he realized that my generosity was still his fastest way to a Wii so he held me to it. That didn't do me much good.
I took my ass and $104 in Best Buy Bucks to Best Buy this morning and... and... sent my brother off to work with our new Wii while I myself went to work for 12hrs (still here). To this day, my total time spent playing Wii was a few Excitetruck tutorials at the EB kiosk (Wednesday) just before they closed despite owning one since launch!
Anyway, during the week, I may have inadvertantly found another clue to the dead-Wii puzzle. I went through the sysytem menus to set up wireless connectivity and found myself in the Wii Shop. I thought it was surprising, considering that none of the channels would work without locking the Wii on a black screen. When I got to the part about linking your My Nintendo account, all I could do was move the insertion point between the two fields or deselect them both. There was no way to input text. I thought there must simply be some unintuitive way to bring up the onscreen keyboard (OSK), but I later found that it should have appeared when selecting it. When I stopped messing around and went to the main screen, I noticed that it was showing a GCN disc I had left in there! This was surprising, becase inserting any disc would cause it to give a read error and lock up whether you tried to launch it or not. I successfully launched the game (Zelda Wind Waker) and then realized that I needed a GC memory card. I poped it in and loaded a file at which point the software errored while loading and the Wii started acting broken as it had all week. In retrospect, I discovered that the Wii Sop was a channel (it appeared as one after I had accessed it another way) and so the Wii was actually functioning before while I was in the Wii Shop. This means that a FUNCTIONAL Wii had an OSK problem in the Wii Shop. I'm sure that if my friend had tried the Wii Shop during the first functional 9hrs of this Wiis life, he would have seen the same thing. Is this an indicator of future bad Wii consoles? Did you OSK work when asked to link your My Nintendo account? Is buggy Opera software to blame for bad Wiis?
I took my ass and $104 in Best Buy Bucks to Best Buy this morning and... and... sent my brother off to work with our new Wii while I myself went to work for 12hrs (still here).
To this day, my total time spent playing Wii was a few Excitetruck tutorials at the EB kiosk (Wednesday) just before they closed despite owning one since launch!Anyway, during the week, I may have inadvertantly found another clue to the dead-Wii puzzle. I went through the sysytem menus to set up wireless connectivity and found myself in the Wii Shop. I thought it was surprising, considering that none of the channels would work without locking the Wii on a black screen. When I got to the part about linking your My Nintendo account, all I could do was move the insertion point between the two fields or deselect them both. There was no way to input text. I thought there must simply be some unintuitive way to bring up the onscreen keyboard (OSK), but I later found that it should have appeared when selecting it. When I stopped messing around and went to the main screen, I noticed that it was showing a GCN disc I had left in there! This was surprising, becase inserting any disc would cause it to give a read error and lock up whether you tried to launch it or not. I successfully launched the game (Zelda Wind Waker) and then realized that I needed a GC memory card. I poped it in and loaded a file at which point the software errored while loading and the Wii started acting broken as it had all week. In retrospect, I discovered that the Wii Sop was a channel (it appeared as one after I had accessed it another way) and so the Wii was actually functioning before while I was in the Wii Shop. This means that a FUNCTIONAL Wii had an OSK problem in the Wii Shop. I'm sure that if my friend had tried the Wii Shop during the first functional 9hrs of this Wiis life, he would have seen the same thing. Is this an indicator of future bad Wii consoles? Did you OSK work when asked to link your My Nintendo account? Is buggy Opera software to blame for bad Wiis?
can you at least start a warranty return on it? that sucks that it broke though
on a side note.. I noticed f-zero was only 1 player!!?!?!?!!?! I was about to buy it until I noticed that (and the fact I don't have my wavebirds yet...)
mugs
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Originally posted by: randomlinh
can you at least start a warranty return on it? that sucks that it broke though
on a side note.. I noticed f-zero was only 1 player!!?!?!?!!?! I was about to buy it until I noticed that (and the fact I don't have my wavebirds yet...)
Still an awesome racing game.
Gah Sonic is stretched! Still a great game, even better now because of the speed of the Wiimote.(I memorized 3/4 of the game levels)
Still a great game, even better now because of the speed of the Wiimote.(I memorized 3/4 of the game levels)
CZroe
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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: randomlinh
can you at least start a warranty return on it? that sucks that it broke though
on a side note.. I noticed f-zero was only 1 player!!?!?!?!!?! I was about to buy it until I noticed that (and the fact I don't have my wavebirds yet...)
Still an awesome racing game.
Which F-Zero? The original did not have a DSP chip ala Super Mario Kart, so it needed to be kept simple. All others except possibly GP Legend appear to support multiplayer and IIRC GP Legend supports the Wireless adapter (in Japan it was either GP or a third Japan-only GBA F-Zero racer with wireless support). Multiplayer is such an integral part of the F-Zero experience now... I imported F-Zero for Gameboy Advance (known as "Maximum Velocity" here) and I breathed a huge sigh of releif when I confirmed that it's Link-compatible with the US version... The Japanese Mario Advance-series games (including Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga) will not link with the US counterparts.
Born2bwire
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Originally posted by: potato28
Gah Sonic is stretched!
I believe you can set the console to 4:3 to keep it from being stretched to 16:9.
going to play my Wii now to beat that boss in Zelda! can't wait for those component cables to come in.. argh!
can't wait for those component cables to come in.. argh!
waggy
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Originally posted by: randomlinh
can you at least start a warranty return on it? that sucks that it broke though
on a side note.. I noticed f-zero was only 1 player!!?!?!?!!?! I was about to buy it until I noticed that (and the fact I don't have my wavebirds yet...)
no. just took it back to walmart to get a wiiplacment. but they were sold out. just have to wait until they get one in.
still have one working controller.
as strong as the sales are going for the wii, it still has a lot of work ahead of itself to dominate anything IMO. The launch titles are decent, but not spectacular. They have to keep the games coming. and the 360 has a huge head start and availability.
the PS3 I doubt will go the way of beta... sony has a fairly large loyal fanbase. And so does FF XIII. Bluray (and HD DVD for that matter) may go the way of beta in favor of on demand content though. And if sony decides to cut prices early next year, there may be more adopters. Dunno if Sony can still be in business though...
I do hope nintendo continue the momentum. I don't want to see them go bye bye.
On a side note... I stuck in my 8MB SD card freebie from my camcorder... 50 blocks. Zelda and Wii Sports took 2 blocks total to backup.. woohooo... what is anyone going to do w/ 1GB memory cards (I heard you can't copy VC games over to them).
Queasy
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